Tag Archives: FSCJ Kent Campus

Walking the Fishweir Creek Loop / Finding the Bridge Where They Planted the Dynamite

Posted on May 19, 2023 | Leave a comment

Click below for this week’s story, or navigate the city through the search bar or the direction buttons at the top of the page:

Twice they dynamited the railroad bridge on Fishweir Creek, but it barely slowed down the Palmetto Limited. Alligators and otters inhabit the creek. So did Vivian’s gun. How many people ever have walked the whole creek loop through the city?

Leave a comment

Posted in Uncategorized

Tagged Atlantic Coast Line railway, Augustus Henry King, Big Fishweir Creek, Boone Park, Duval Law and Order League, Fishweir Creek, Florida Junior College Cumberland Campus, FSCJ Kent Campus, Great Railroad Strike of 1922, Harpoon Louie's, Harry Daugherty, J.P. Partee, John Martin, John McIntosh, John McQueen, Leah Mary Cox, Lenah Cox, Little Fishweir Creek, Mayor John Martin, Mocama, Mocama Indians, Montgomery Place, Ortega River, Palmetto Limited, Six Mile Creek, St. Johns Avenue, Telfair Stockton, Vivian Payne

Remembering O.Z. Tyler, Epic Poet on Willow Branch Canal

Posted on August 7, 2022 | Leave a comment

Click below for this week’s story, or navigate the city through the search bar or the direction buttons at the top of the page:

A quarter century ago, the ancient epic poet, “the Colonel,” opened his Tudor style home on Willow Branch Canal to a poet in his 20s. Orville Zelotes Tyler, Jr. wanted to be to America, to the South, to Jacksonville what Homer was to Ancient Greece, and his subject was Osceola, the Seminole leader who’d resisted the U.S. Army and was only captured under truce.

Leave a comment

Posted in Uncategorized

Tagged Bill Slaughter, Cumberland Campus, E.M. Souvielle, Eliza Wilbur, Florida Junior College, Florida State College at Jacksonville, FSCJ Kent Campus, Jacksonville Historical Society, jaxpsychogeo, Marabanong, O.Z. Tyler, Orville Zelotes Tyler, Osceola, Osceola Seminole Chief, Palmer Tyler, Riverside Avondale, Tim Gilmore, Ulyssiad, William Slaughter, Willow Branch Canal, Willow Branch Creek, Willow Branch Terrace

Prissy’s Forgotten Arborteum

Posted on March 27, 2020 | Leave a comment

Click below for this week’s story, or navigate the city through the direction buttons at the top of the page:

I’d ask Prissy Bowers, were she still here. Jessie Lynn-Kerr wrote her obituary. On January 12, 2002, The Florida Times-Union headlined it, “Cheerful Clown Bowers Dies at 76.” She’d fought cancer for 16 years, one year fewer than she’d worked on her book. Dozens of clowns attended her funeral at Avondale United Methodist Church in full costume. The sign that once identified Wildling Arboretum has vanished, but these trees rise still. And a few of their broken markers.

Leave a comment

Posted in Uncategorized

Tagged Arborfest, Buttercup the Clown, Campus Voice, Creek Indian Show, Cumberland Campus, Fishweir Creek, Florida Community College Jacksonville Arborfest, Florida history, Florida State College at Jacksonville Kent Campus, FSCJ Kent Campus, Garden Club of Jacksonville, I Eat Weeds, Jimmy Sawgrass, Kent Campus, Kerry Speckman, Little Fishweir Creek, Priscilla Bowers, Prissy Bowers, Stephanie Crosier, Tim Gilmore, Wildling Arboretum, Wildling Garden Club

From Mini-Museum to Big-House: The Art of Richard McMahan

Posted on October 19, 2018 | Leave a comment

Click below for the full story:

Richard McMahan’s intensity does not waver. Whether it’s the thousands of miniatures he’s created of Van Goghs, Frida Kahlos, Picassos and duChamps, or it’s the prison stories and illustrations, the collection of shackles and prison uniforms, Richard’s work is obsessive.

courtesy Community Foundation of Northeast Florida & laird/blac palm inc

Everything Richard does forms part of a life’s-work. His Mini-Museum offers a survey of the world’s great art, while his Big-House project asks “the biggest question[s] of all.”

photo by James Hunter

Leave a comment

Posted in Uncategorized

Tagged American Visionary Art Museum, Amy Crane, Bargain House of Fleas, Brett Waller, Chamblin Bookmine, Chamblin's Uptown, Chronicles from the Big House, Community Foundation of Northeast Florida, Community Foundations, Douglas Anderson School of the Arts, Elysium Art Farm, Florida State College at Jacksonville, FSCJ, FSCJ Kent Campus, House of Miniatures, Howard Finster, I AM Residency, Jacksonville Florida, Jacksonville Outsider Art, James Hunter, jaxpsychogeo, Kent Campus, Maori canoe, Mark Creegan, mini-museum, Nullspace, Olympia Stone, outsider art, Pasaquan, Richard McMahan, Richard McMahan's Mini-Museum, St. EOM, Tall Shorts Film Festival, The Original Richard McMahan, Tim Gilmore, Tom Chadwick